Loop BudgetSAFE
Practical patterns, starters & CLI tools for loop engineering with AI coding agents. Design systems that prompt and orchestrate agents (inspired by Addy Osmani and Boris Cherny). Includes loop-audit, loop-init, loop-cost.
Overview
Practical patterns, starters & CLI tools for loop engineering with AI coding agents. Design systems that prompt and orchestrate agents (inspired by Addy Osmani and Boris Cherny). Includes loop-audit, loop-init, loop-cost.
93bc2cae349fOBSERVED · 2026-10-23What it tells the agent
The instruction file, verbatim from the audited commit — this is the text the model reads, and the surface the audit's instruction layer examines. Quoted here so you can judge it without cloning anything.
---
name: loop-budget
description: Check token budget and run-log spend before and after a loop run. Enforces early exit when over budget or when there is no actionable work.
---
# Loop Budget Guard
Run at the **start** and **end** of every loop iteration.
## Start of run
1. Read `loop-budget.md` for daily caps and kill-switch flags.
2. Read recent entries in `loop-run-log.md` (last 24h).
3. Sum `tokens_estimate` for the active pattern today.
4. If spend ≥ 80% of the pattern's daily cap → **report-only mode** (no sub-agents, no auto-fix).
5. If spend ≥ 90% and High Priority items remain in `STATE.md`, yield to the [budget-negotiator](../budget-negotiator/SKILL.md) skill (if installed). Otherwise, if spend ≥ 100% or `loop-pause-all` is set → **exit immediately** with a one-line note in STATE.md.
6. If watchlist/state has no actionable items → **exit in <5k tokens** (do not spawn sub-agents).
## End of run
Append one JSON object to `loop-run-log.md`:
```json
{
"run_id": "<ISO8601>",
"pattern": "<pattern-id>",
"duration_s": <number>,
"items_found": <number>,
"actions_taken": <number>,
"escalations": <number>,
"tokens_estimate": <number>,
"outcome": "no-op | report-only | fix-proposed | escalated"
}
```
## Rules
- Never exceed `max sub-agent spawns/run` from `loop-budget.md`.
- High-cadence patterns (CI Sweeper, PR Babysitter) **must** early-exit when nothing is actionable.
- On self-throttle, append a line to `loop-budget.md` under **Alerts This Period**.Trust audit
SAFEgrade B · trust 89/100 Nothing in the source contradicts what it says it does. Grade A is reserved for packages that have also passed the behavioural sandbox.
| Layer | What it checks | Result |
|---|---|---|
| L0 | Provenance & inventory | PASS |
| L1 | Static analysis of the code | NA |
| L2 | Instruction surface (what it tells the agent) | PASS |
| L3 | Class-specific surface | PASS |
| L4 | Behavioural (sandbox) | SKIPPED |
What the source does
- Filesystem
- none-observed
- Network
- none-observed
- Shell
- none-observed
- Dependencies
- pinned
- Secrets in source
- none-found
Findings (0)
No findings outside the package's declared scope.
Gates applied: no_behavioural_pass.
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Every audit this skill has had.
| Date | Source | Verdict | Grade | Score | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-23 | 93bc2cae349f | SAFE | B | 89 | first audit |
Questions
What does the Loop Budget skill do?
Practical patterns, starters & CLI tools for loop engineering with AI coding agents. Design systems that prompt and orchestrate agents (inspired by Addy Osmani and Boris Cherny). Includes loop-audit, loop-init, loop-cost.
Is Loop Budget safe to install?
The audit found nothing in the source that contradicts what it says it does, and graded it B (89/100). Grade A is held back for packages that have also passed a sandboxed behavioural run, which is why a clean skill reads B.
What can Loop Budget access on my machine?
The audit observed no filesystem, network or shell use at all in its source.
How current is this page?
The grade is for one exact copy of the source (93bc2cae349f), read on 2026-10-23. The repository is watched, and a new audit runs when it changes — this is the first audit.
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